{"product_id":"conversational-realities","title":"Conversational Realities","description":"This imaginative and original book challenges the traditional scientific view that naturally occurring psychological and sociological `realities′ are to be discovered underlying appearances. Instead, it claims that such orderly realities are both socially constructed and sustained within the context of people′s disorderly, everyday conversational activities.\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Shotter′s interdisciplinary analysis highlights the socially contested but imaginary nature of many of the `things′ we talk about in social life and illuminates the processes of their construction. He offers a broad-ranging exploration of the rhetorical, argumentative nature of conversational communication, using examples from psychotherapy, management and everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SAGE Publications Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54259543867736,"sku":"9780803989337","price":79.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780803989337_ee94e3d1-f2f9-46d2-b27d-f4a4cd44066e.jpg?v=1777787158","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/conversational-realities","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}